Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Asger Jorn

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Federico García Lorca

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

René Magritte

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Konrad Zuse

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

Rembrandt

“Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know”. –Rembrandt

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Harry Chapin

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

Jerry Garcia

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

William Blake

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”. –William Blake

Boris Pasternak

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Albrecht Dürer

“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error”. –Albrecht Dürer

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

Tupac Shakur

“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

Thelonious Monk

“Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture”. –Thelonious Monk

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Denis Diderot

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step”. –Denis Diderot

Janis Joplin

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got”. –Janis Joplin

William Morris

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

Bob Marley

“Well, the biggest man that you ever did see was – was just a baby”. –Bob Marley

Claude Debussy

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art”. –Claude Debussy

M.C. Escher

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order”. –M.C. Escher

Georges Bizet

“As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note”. –Georges Bizet

Hans Christian Andersen

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Salvador Dali

“Any kind of organization for the goodwill of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously”. –Salvador Dali

John Lennon

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Ansel Adams

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment”. –Ansel Adams

Hoyt Axton

“You know I smoked a lot of grass, And I popped a couple pills, But I never touched nothing that could break my will”. –Hoyt Axton

Sid Vicious

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

Pablo Picasso

“It’s not what the artist does that counts, but what he is”. — Pablo Picasso

Miles Davis

“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow”. –Miles Davis

Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Ryokan

“The winds give me Enough fallen leaves To make a fire”. –Ryokan

Bruce Lee

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it”. –Bruce Lee

Grandma Moses

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”. –Grandma Moses

Michelangelo

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all”. –Michelangelo

Antonio Gaudi

“Men may be divided into two types: men of words and men of action. The first speaks; the latter act. I am of the second type. I lack the means to express myself adequately”. –Antonio Gaudi

Robert Moog

“One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it’s so easy to make sounds, and put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it’s just as hard as it always was to make good music”. –Robert Moog

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

Vincent van Gogh

“There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation, many things remain incomprehensible and dark”. –Vincent van Gogh

Peter Tosh

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die”. –Peter Tosh

Nat King Cole

“I can’t bear to see myself, even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself”. –Nat King Cole

Khalil Gibran

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to”. –Khalil Gibran

Igor Stravinsky

“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles”. –Igor Stravinsky

Max Planck

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”. –Max Planck

William S. Burroughs

“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity”. –William S. Burroughs

Henry Miller

“What is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?” –Henry Miller

Frank Zappa

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”. –Frank Zappa

Andy Warhol

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest”. –Andy Warhol

G.G. Allin

“It’s not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way”. –G.G. Allin

George Harrison

“The farther one travels, the less one really knows”. –George Harrison

Paul Gauguin

“I shut my eyes in order to see”. –Paul Gauguin

Stanley Kubrick

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes”. –Stanley Kubrick